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The Sandbox

READY FOR CRAFTING VIRTUAL WORLDS ON YOUR PC?The acclaimed world-building game featuring a unique mission-based approach is coming onto PC via Steam Early Access. With over 16 million players on mobile & tablets versions and 1,500,000 pixel blocks creations shared in the Online Gallery to date, this PC version is taking world...

★ FROM DUST ★ GALIMULATOR ★ TERRA FIRMA 2 ★ SIMMILAND ★ FATE TECTONICS ★ SAND:BOX ★ CREST - AN INDIRECT GOD SIM ★ TYTO ECOLOGY ★ SANDBOXELS ★ TERRA FIRMA ★ REUS ★ SPECIES: ARTIFICIAL LIFE, REAL EVOLUTION ★ WE ♥ IT 
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Galimulator

91% 👍 OF 502
About This Game

Galimulator is a galactic empire simulation and sandbox game. See how Empires rise and fall, and how the people in them climb through the ranks to bring prestige to their Dynasty. Then throw in an invasion of self replicating Smatter monsters if you want to spice things up.

Player reviews say you can…

  • …Watch Empires Rise
  • …Follow Dynasty Careers
  • …Rule Through a Flagship
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Terra Firma 2

93% 👍 OF 212
About This Game

Shape breathtaking worlds in Terra Firma 2, a vast simulation where your creations evolve through the forces of nature. Sculpt the land, then watch as weather, erosion, and life itself transform your world into a dynamic, living ecosystem- right down to every plant and creature.

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Simmiland

87% 👍 OF 2.0K
About This Game

Simmiland is a god-like card game. In this game you indirectly influence a small civilization by manipulating their surroundings by playing cards πŸƒπŸƒπŸƒ Playing cards on different biomes and objects will result in different findings. The way you play the game will define how mankind will develop!

Player reviews say you can…

  • …Shape Biomes With Cards
  • …Discover Resource Recipes
  • …Invent Through Inspection
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Crest - an indirect god sim

65% 👍 OF 376
About This Game

Your word is gospel in this god sim set in Sub-Saharan Africa. Influence and try to control your followers using commandments but beware, free will leaves these open to interpretation. Will you create a flourishing civilization or lead them to death and destruction?

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Tyto Ecology

75% 👍 OF 436
About This Game

Build your biome! With an empty biodome as your canvas, add plants and animals from three different ecosystems. Observe interactions like hunting, blooming, and even decomposing! Will your biodome last for decades, or will it experience a total ecosystem collapse? You’re in control!

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Sandboxels

95% 👍 OF 1.2K
About This Game

Falling-sand sandbox game with 500+ elements, chemistry, fire, life, food, and anything you can imagine.

Player reviews say you can…

  • …Build Nuclear Reactors
  • …Grow Living Ecosystems
  • …Cook Pixel Food
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Terra Firma

94% 👍 OF 605
About This Game

Play god and create your own world in this complex simulation. Plate tectonics, wind and water erosion and plant life all develop and interact to produce a world that is viewable from a single tree to kilometres across.

Player reviews say you can…

  • …Shape Moving Continents
  • …Carve Rivers With Water
  • …Reshape Land By Hand
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Reus

78% 👍 OF 6.0K
About This Game

In Reus, you control powerful giants to shape the planet to your will. You can create mountains, oceans, forests and more. Enrich your planet with plants, minerals and animal life. There is only one thing on the planet that you do not control: mankind, with all their virtues and and all their vices.

Player reviews say you can…

  • …Shape Living Biomes
  • …Combine Resource Synergies
  • …Grow Human Settlements
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Species: Artificial Life, Real Evolution

74% 👍 OF 1.0K
About This Game

Play with evolution! Species: ALRE is a scientifically-grounded, emergent simulation of natural selection. Creatures evolve and speciate in response to in-game mutation and selection forces, allowing you to experience and tinker with evolution in real-time.

Player reviews say you can…

  • …Tinker With Genes
  • …Trigger Global Catastrophes
  • …Steer Feeding Rovers